Ecuador: debate intensifies over constitutional referendum plan

Tempers have intensified in Ecuador with politicians in favor and against the government debating over a plan to have a constitutional referendum. Earlier this week, Ecuador’s top electoral court set a date for a national referendum and on Wednesday voted to ax nearly 60 legislators that were deemed to have interfered with the referendum measure. In response to that, critics of the government in Congress fired the head of the tribunal court and will try to impeach pro-referendum judges.

Ecuador’s president (image) vowed to support the electoral court and will continue to push for a national referendum.

Links- The Latin Americanist, International Herald Tribune, Reuters, BBC News

Image- BBC News